Former Trump campaign pollster John McLaughlin said that the effort to cancel former President Donald Trump is backfiring and will likely embolden the former president’s voter bases. “It’s backfiring,” John McLaughlin told Newsmax on Thursday. “What they’re doing on impeachment, people see it is unfair, unconstitutional, going against the president.” McLaughlin said that Americans are more concerned with the CCP virus and other issues. The effort to convict Trump in an impeachment trial suffered a grave setback after 45 Republican senators voted against holding the trial, meaning that it’s unlikely there will be enough votes to convict the former president. Convicting a president requires at least 67 votes, meaning 17 Republicans would have to join Democrats. A number of Republican senators said it’s unconstitutional and pointless to convict a former president. “It’s having no impact on his base, in fact, it’s just solidifying them and making them angrier or more …